The Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU) has announced its partnership with American Student Assistance (ASA) on a movement to address the college affordability issue by revolutionizing how students and alumni finance and repay their higher education costs.

New version gives instructors the time-saving capability of exporting scores in a file specifically formatted for Sapling Learning, a provider of interactive homework and learning software for higher education in the areas of science, economics and other STEM disciplines.

Ciber has been chosen to implement and maintain Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications that will modernize computing and processes at all 34 campuses of the Washington State Board of Community & Technical Colleges (SBCTC) system.

To help institutions secure sensitive data, Ellucian announced today that it is offering a bundled, multi-layer defense software package that is complemented by best-practice services for Banner® by Ellucian customers.

The University of North Texas will install the advanced Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) radar on April 2 (Tuesday), which will provide improved severe weather data and storm warnings to the North Texas region, just in time for the 2013 tornado season.

VisionPoint Marketing will be responsible for extensive research and usability testing with the site’s primary audience groups, as well as design a set of cohesive, responsive website templates that leverage Virginia Tech’s existing brand. While VisionPoint will lead the project’s strategy and design phases, Jackson and his team will implement the new templates on their existing technical infrastructure.

The Textbook AI by college is a new feature of the Akademos Textbook Adoption Tool released last year that provides faculty key metrics to compare the quality and cost of textbooks across 3,600 subject areas.

Epson's new BrightLink Pro 1410Wi turns a traditional whiteboard, wall or virtually any flat surface into a new digital surface and offers a variety of features to boost meeting room collaboration, including video conferencing compatibility and remote collaboration.

Higher education marketing firm mStoner has released "Social Works: How #HigherEd Uses #SocialMedia to Raise Money, Build Awareness, Recruit Students, and Get Results," the first comprehensive guide to creating and launching social media campaigns in higher education.